More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose…
  2. What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
  3. Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
  4. The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to gras…
  5. The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fer…
  6. Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
  7. There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
  8. A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is…

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